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Aboriginal Australians
In the 18th century, as European colonization proceeded apace, one continent remained to be discovered, the mythical Terra Australis incognita. This, the largest island-continent, …
Appetites for Thought
Appetites for Thought offers up a delectable intellectual challenge: can we better understand the concepts of philosophers from their culinary choices? Guiding us around the …
Culture and Waste
Waste is a key category for understanding cultural value. It is not just the 'bad stuff' we dispose of; it is material we constantly struggle to redeem. Cultures seem to spend as …
In the Name of Sharks
Twenty metres below water, the oceanographer François Sarano came face to face with a five-and-a-half metre great white shark. Seduced by the gentle elegance of this majestic …
The Children's Country
In North-West Australia, between 2009 and 2013, a major Indigenous-environmentalist alliance waged a successful campaign to stop a huge industrial development, a $45 billion …
Latour-Stengers
Certain great friendships have left their mark in the annals of philosophy and, without a doubt, the friendship of Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers is among them. Although they …
Reading the Country
Wandering Souls
In September 2014, the French government entrusted Tobie Nathan with the task of counselling radicalized young people who had been drawn to jihadism and in this book he recounts …
Mother's Day Protest and Other Fictocritical Essays
As a genre that confounds the distinction between fiction and non-fiction, fictocriticism continues to gain currency. It solves a problem for researchers and writers who do not …
In the Name of Sharks
Twenty metres below water, the oceanographer Fran ois Sarano came face to face with a five-and-a-half metre great white shark. Seduced by the gentle elegance of this majestic …
Culture and Waste
Waste is a key category for understanding cultural value. It is not just the 'bad stuff' we dispose of; it is material we constantly struggle to redeem. Cultures seem to spend as …
We are Forests
From the Sivens forest in France to the Hambach forest in Germany, from the Broadback forest in Canada to the rainforests of Borneo, something has shifted in these wild spaces over …